Tyler Olson: Physicians are not complicit in how the healthcare system negatively impacts patients
Tyler Olson, Financial planner at Olson Consulting LLC shared a post by Mark Lewis on X, adding:
“My face looked just like Mark Lewis when I saw this post.
Physicians are not complicit in how the healthcare system negatively impacts patients.
Just as I am not complicit in the earth’s pollution problems, even though I drive a non-hybrid SUV. Such accusations are big on zing, but lacking in real life application.
The doctors get into medicine because they love medicine. Little do they when they’re med students at the time, really understand that they are being hurtled into a profit-driven insurance company monopoly.
The above average compensation is well deserved for the skill and care development, not to mention the life-saving and quality of life improving results of their work.
But not just that.
The income serves as golden handcuffs, since it’s likely the only means by which they can pay off the exorbitant cost of med school tuition.
The schools and the insurance companies are the man behind the curtain.
It is as if the doctors walked through a door thinking they’ll be seeing their patient but instead, there are two other people in the room
- the insurance guy with his prior authorizations barking at the doctor how to practice medicine with his zero years in medical training and
- this guy with his ‘how dare you make money, you should be a full time doctor making less money and be a full time healthcare reform advocate otherwise you’re a bad person’ rhetoric. How hoodwinked.
The patient is at the back of the room asking for the doctor’s help but first she’s got to block out the negative noise of people like Jesse.
Then she’s got to convince the insurance company guy she’s an expert in medicine and that she knows more than him.
Sick of this insurance trickery.”
Quoting Mark Lewis’s post:
“Things insurance companies have said to me.”
Proceed to the video attached to the post.
Sources: Tyler Olson/X and Mark Lewis/X
Mark A. Lewis is the Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah, the Co-Chair of adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology in the SWOG cooperative group, and the Vice President of American Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Support.
Dr. Lewis is also a well-known patient advocate and social media influencer. His interests are neuroendocrine tumors and cancer syndromes.